28 THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Coney Island Film Festival
With its scrappy new amphitheatre, chic bumper-
car discos sponsored by local clothing brands, and
boardwalk sticky with margarita mix, Coney Is-
land happened this summer. New Yorkers will take
a vacation where they can get it, and, throughout
the hottest summer on record, they rediscovered
the wonders that await at the end o the D train,
including a beachfront refuge that's a bit more
norm-core than the Hamptons. Keep an eye on
Coney Island through the fall, as o eat events
continue in milder weather. Sideshows by the
Seashore and the Coney Island Museum host the
lm festival this week, showing original shorts,
classic campy features, and live stage shows, and
serving food and drinks. The program includes
a slate o comedies, horrors, and documentaries
set in Brooklyn and beyond---don't miss Satur-
day night's Sideshow screening o "The War-
riors" before your own moonlit journey back to
home turf. (3006 W. 12th St., Brooklyn. 718-372-
5159. Sept. 16-18.)
Honey Fest
Celebrate nature's great sweetener and the
year-round stylishness o a beekeeper hat at
this boardwalk festival. The main event o New
York's annual Honey Week features children's
arts and crafts; a honeybee-product marketplace,
selling everything from beverages to cosmet-
ics; a tasting contest; and beekeepers' demon-
strations o extraction processes and other intri-
cate hive techniques. Children can enjoy bee-hat
making and an interactive booth with lessons on
pollination. The free, daylong festival is a sweet
way to close out the season. (Boardwalk 86th,
Rockaway Beach. 8601 Shore Front Pkwy., Queens.
nychoneyweek.com. Sept. 17.)
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AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES
Phillips makes its rst foray into the fall auctions
scene with one o its occasional "New Now" sales
(Sept. 20), a session that features various pieces
from the collection o the late Finnish economist
and nancier (and Dia Art Foundation trustee)
Pentti Kouri. These include a sculpture by the Ital-
ian conceptualist Giuseppe Penone ("Fingernail
and Marble") that looks very much like the giant
stone nger o a colossus. (450 Park Ave. 212-940-
1200.) • The two top houses are over owing with
Asian vases, screens, and calligraphic composi-
tions, all part o the extravaganza known as Asia
Week. At Christie's, the sales on Sept. 15-16 are
dominated by Chinese art and objects, including
a day o ceramics (Sept. 15) that culminates in an
o ering o more than four hundred lots from the
collections o the Metropolitan Museum. An auc-
tion o furniture from a private collection (Sept.
16) also includes a delicate and semi-abstract land-
scape, "Far-O Journey," by the contemporary art-
ist Liu Dan. Finally, the house kicks o its online
auction (Sept. 19-28) o items from the homes o
Ronald and Nancy Reagan, which includes ev-
erything from the family's Thanksgiving platter
to a dainty gold-mesh evening bag, a large por-
celain bald eagle, and a rst edition o the "Com-
plete Poems o Robert Frost," signed by the poet.
A larger brick-and-mortar auction takes place
the following week. (20 Rockefeller Plaza, at 49th
St. 212-636-2000.) • A sale o Chinese paintings
at Sotheby's (Sept. 15) is led by a work from the
eighteenth century, "Tiger and Fish," in which a
family o large cats dips their paws into a silvery
current in hopes o nabbing lunch. The house's
Asia Week o erings conclude with an edition o
ILLUSTRATION BY PABLO AMARGO
1995. The score is a patchwork o various Tchaikovsky
symphonies. Martin Harvey, who plays the titular
king---murderer o Duncan, tyrant, madman---is an
alumnus o the Royal Ballet and an occasional lm
actor. (Park Ave. at 68th St. 212-722-4448. Sept. 15-18.)
"About Kazuo Ohno"
Rock legends inspire impersonators, and it turns
out that some dance legends do, too. At the Japan
Society, the contemporary dancer Takao Kawagu-
chi channels Kazuo Ohno, one o the great gures
o Japanese dance history. Ohno, who would have
been a hundred and ten this year, was one o the in-
ventors o Butoh, a form o expressionist dance-the-
atre in which the body becomes an extreme tool o
expression: distorted, often painted white or cov-
ered in rags, and vulnerable. The piece includes
reinterpretations o various famous Ohno solos.
The American ensemble Big Dance Theatre also
presents "Resplendent Shimmering Topaz Water-
its "Saturdays at Sotheby's" series (Sept. 17), a
grab bag o Chinese, Japanese, and Korean works.
(York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-606-7000.)
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READINGS AND TALKS
Le Poisson Rouge
As part o the Brooklyn Book Festival, the re-
brand illustrator Molly Crabapple and the con-
troversial memoirist Ali Eteraz host a discussion
o modern terror, examining its many angles. The
two authors take on taboos relating to race, re-
ligion, gender, and sexuality through the lenses
o art and activism. Billed topics include Richard
Wright, military torture, guerrilla calligraphy, and
underground culture in the age o Guantánamo.
Ibrahim Ahmad, the senior editor o the indepen-
dent publishing house Akashic Books, moderates;
the talk is presented in conjunction with the PEN
American Center and the Muslim Writers Collec-
tive. (158 Bleecker St. 212-505-3474. Sept. 14 at 6:30.)
French Institute Alliance Française
A lecture series coincides with an exhibit o a
recently discovered plaster o "Little Dancer,
Aged Fourteen," one o the artist Edgar Degas's
most famous bronze sculptures. On display at
F.I.A.F. Sept. 12-17, the plaster is an early draft,
revealing adjustments in pose and implied motion
that Degas made to the nal version. Two talks
nd inspiration in the process: the art historian
and critic Arthur Beale delivers a lecture titled
"How Understanding Sculptural Techniques Can
Lead to Important Art Discoveries," followed by
a talk from the gurative artist Eric Fischl, "From
Degas to Me with Some Artists in Between." (22
E. 60th St. 212-355-6100. Sept. 14-15 at 6:30.)
ABOVE & BEYOND
fall," a sketch based on the choreographic notes
o another Butoh master, Tatsumi Hijikata. (333
E. 47th St. 212-715-1258. Sept. 16-17.)
New Chamber Ballet
The enterprising Miro Magloire returns to City
Center Studio 5 for one o his intimate evenings o
music and dance. All the music is played live by the
excellent Melody Fader (piano) and Doori Na (vio-
lin). Magloire's musical tastes tend toward the con-
temporary; one o the works on the program, by the
German composer Reiko Fueting, was written just
two years ago, and the other, by Michel Galante, is
brand new. His ve dancers---all women---are mu-
sically sensitive, beautifully trained, and under-
stated. (130 W. 56th St. 212-868-4444. Sept. 16-17.)
The Holy Body Tattoo
As much rock concert as dance show, "monumental"
is a collaboration between this Canadian contem-
porary dance troupe and the band Godspeed You!
Black Emperor. To the huge and dirty sound o ve
guitars, two drum kits, and a violin, nine dancers
in o ce attire thrash on and o o small pillars, ex-
pressing their discontent with cold, corporate life.
Though the theme is not exactly original, the insis-
tent delivery is unusually intense. (BAM's Howard
Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. 718-
636-4100. Sept. 16-17.)
"Works & Process" / Kate Weare Company
The most distinctive aspect o Weare's choreogra-
phy is often the undercurrent o primal attraction
among her dancers. That's the proposed theme o
her new piece "Marksman," excerpted in preview
here before its première, at the Joyce, in November.
The score is by the saxophonist Curtis Robert Mac-
donald, who joins the choreographer in a discussion
moderated by the artist Cli ord Ross. (Guggenheim
Museum, Fifth Ave. at 89th St. 212-423-3575. Sept. 18.)
DANCE